[OSM-talk] Fixing OSM wikipedia redirects

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Mark, these do rarely happen, but do they add value?  Having data that
points to a non-(machine)-verifiable redirect, a redirect that could be
deleted or changed at any moment is very fragile.

I think these should be resolved to the target, and treated as I described
in [1] - links to wikipedia pages about multiple objects.  This way it will
be clear that the tag points to a subsection/component of an article, and
will be treated accordingly.

[1]
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Improvement_Tasks#Links_to_Wikipedia_pages_about_multiple_objects

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:58 AM, Mark Wagner <mark+osm at carnildo.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:11:52 -0400
> Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > At the moment, there are nearly 40,000 OSM objects whose wikipedia
> > tag does not match their wikidata tag. Most of them are Wikipedia
> > redirects, whose target is the right wikipedia article.
>
> What about the ones where the article is a Wikipedia redirect, whose
> target is *almost, but not quite* the right Wikipedia article?  I'm
> thinking about things like neighborhoods of a city, where Wikipedia
> currently has a redirect to the city article.
>
> --
> Mark
>
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